ASUS producing a tablet with Core iX on board?

According to Netbooknews.de, ASUS may be producing a tablet with a Core iX processor under the hood. Expected to contain either a Core i5 or Core i7 processor, the tablet should ship with Windows 7. Said to have been in development since late last year, it is believed the device may be officially unveiled within the coming weeks. Supposedly different from the now the company’s now confirmed Eee Pad, the Core iX tablet could sport a design similar to the WePad shown above. The rumored price? $750.

so the means this package actually runs the programs you already have and want to run.. what a novel idea

(The real Jarrett) Jarrett

@ bob,

I know huh? I mean, all those apps you own already have been especially built for a multi-touch environment right? Plus, with the Core iX you can expect this thing to be light right? The battery will have to be huge, or only last 2 hours. This is the perfect combination of a 3lb keyboardless NetBook with 2 hour battery running with standard apps in a somewhat multi-touch environment. I am out on a limb here, but I think this thing could sell hundreds if not thousands of units in the next 3 years.

HEMI 922

Yes true, but you shouldn’t worry if you had the engeri to go XP8000 portable for eee Pad.

Humm..Mmmm.. Can it play crysis?

Killah kyle

Oh cool a tablet that has useful programs instead of a million fart apps

Matt W

FINALLY, somone who thinks the same way I do. My brother has been showing off his apps to convince me to buy an iPhone. “Look it makes light saber noises!” “It can make fart noises!” WOW usefull, definately worth the money…..

I think these new tablets with windows 7 have a LOT of potential, also, if these really catch on it wont be long before most programs are updated with touch freindly gestures and interfaces.

Bob

Surely i3 is far more likely, there would be less space for a battery so they would be going for as low power consumption as possible while still giving better performance than an atom.

loki

@loki and the rest, from loki

for u spell and grammar freaks out there “sloe” is spelled like that on purpose!

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http://infotainmentempire.blogspot.com Rob

I would have to agree an i3 seems more likely. Too bad it wasn’t Android though…

Spicedham

current hardware technology doesn’t complement windows 7 very well for a tablet. the os is too taxing on the hardware for good battery life.

Electrofreak

Hmm. I wonder what the battery life on that bad boy is going to be.

I mean, Intel’s Core i processors are pretty power efficient as far as desktop CPUs go, but damn…

Arthur

I expect they’ll come out with both types of tablets — Windows 7 on the high end and Android on the lower end.

NuShrike

off-topic: too late for Microsoft to call it the WePhone instead of Windows Phone 7 (Series).

Bill Grove

I really want a Windows 7 tablet. Let me restate that… I have one… I want a BETTER one! I wanted the HP, but the reports coming out are saying that it’s just not that great. I think want I want is an iPad, but with Win7 and ports! Think somebody can make that happen? :)

(The real Jarrett) Jarrett

Actually Bill, a couple of weeks ago someone posted a video of Win7 running on an iPad. USB isn’t on and probably won’t ever be on the iPad though. Intel is suggesting that even USB 3.0 will be short lived because LightPeak is right around the corner (Intel and Apple co-developed LightPeak on the basis of a Grand scale of ADC.) So if USB is your need, just keep your Tablet now. I mean, it isn’t like the Windows manufacturers are going to suddenly get it right, it has been ten years and they have gotten nowhere.

Matt W

I thaught I’d add that Windows 7 wont ever run on the current iPad, but you can use remote desktop to make it appear it’s running Win7.

YAZombie

Core iX? Windows 7? Two hours battery?

HEMI 922

if you were complaint about two hours battery, then get the engeri to go XP8000 portable, thats simple..

YAZombie

Euh… thanks for the advice but I think I’ll rather stick to a slate that can hold 10 to 12h out of the box…

Frank

Less.

Spicedham

lol i dont think there’s laptop right now with a i3 does more than 5 hours and thats with a laptop battery. how do these people expect to make a reasonable sized tablet that has acceptable battery life.

(The real Jarrett) Jarrett

These posts are amazing. A high end “Tablet”? Are you all serious? A desktop OS on a “Tablet” hasn’t work in ten years and will not work in the next ten years. Tablets are completely out of all of these companies rhelm. You can not enter a feild with a dominant hardware/software company and gain any traction……… Unless your name is Apple.
Bill Gates around 2000 stated that “The Tablet formfactor will be the majority of the PC market by 2005.” Didn’t happen. He also stated “You can not reinvent the Operating System.” This of course did happen, it just wasn’t microsoft or anyone else that got it right. Now though, Microsoft is getting it by following Apple’s lead once again. You have to have scale to you business and make everything integrate vertically. Poeple keep thinking there are going to be numerous WP7 phones. Well, there is and there isn’t. Microsoft has already stated that each phone will be like the next. Some will obviously have more memory and a faster processor but all phone will have to adhere to the hardware specs Microsoft sets. When Microsoft releases the “Courier” (or something similar to that mock up in that video) they will clamp down on the platform even more than they are from the beginning. Then they will screw their partners over again like the did with “PlaysForSure” (PlaysForShit as most of you remember). Microsoft is late, but again they are doing everything Apple does, just years later.

pdg

So what’s your point: the tablet form factor is only good for lame media-consumption devices?
I don’t think so.
Tablet running windows haven’t make it yet because they were not meant for consumers, they were expensive, heavy, and lacked the combination of multitouch and a digitizer.
Things are changing, though.
I’d really like to have a windows tablet for productivity (e.g. I rely a lot on onenote and its handwritting recognition) AND an ipad (with a webcam and a pixel qi display) as an ebook reader / agenda / web surfing etc.

Mike

How long before a tablet running Windows Phone is announced? Perhaps they should have left the name as Windows Mobile.

strider_mt2k

Not to mention that Win 7 was written to support them as well.

eric

lol..winblows blows again!..no need NOT for android to be the OS

http://www.paper-scanning-services.com David

I want an ipad that has usb ports and simple file manager. Is that really to much to ask?

Anon

yes.

StevenGlansburg

Android doesn’t need to be on everything. In fact keep it off everything but the grossly overpriced things Verizon sells as a ‘DROIDS’.

Chuck Diesel

Android on anything bigger than 5 inches would be lame. 800×480 is the max res. Apple seems to have the best formula so far. I had an ipad for a week, and liked it, but it still didnt carve out enough of a niche between my phone and convertible lappy.

Dodgerfan

I will wait for Palm….WEBos.

mike

I think it is stupid to come out with something at $750. Make a version like the Ipad that does exactly what the Ipad does, give it usb and a camera, and price it at $300-350 and you’ve got a winner. The Ipad does what most people are using computers for so why not wise up to that fact? You know the Ipad costs Apple $250 for the base so make a $100 a unit and sell thousands.